Health Insurance Exchange (HIX)

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106,185 Americans selected health plans in first reporting period of open enrollment

Press Release | HHS.Gov | November 13, 2013

Affordable Care Act (ACA) - 106,185 Americans selected health plans in first reporting period of open enrollment and 975,407 customers went through the process but have not yet selected a plan; an additional 396,261 assessed or determined eligible for Medicaid or CHIP. Read More »

2013: The Tipping Point In Health Care

Paul H. Keckley | Deloitte | January 3, 2012

In the health care industry, 2013 will be a huge year: the perfect storm of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), the fiscal cliff and long-term deficit reduction, consumer dissatisfaction, and higher costs mean it’s a year when results matter.

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A Giant Step Toward a Culture of Health

Risa Lavizzo-Mourey | Robert Wood Johnson (RWJ) Blog | October 1, 2013

More than 48 million Americans live without health insurance coverage. They are people we all know. They are our neighbors, friends, and family members. Read More »

Analytics in health care: Tools in the hands of consumers

Kevin Kelly | Deloitte Center for Health Solutions | November 11, 2013

Despite facing some issues at the start, health insurance exchanges are beginning to open their doors; health plans are beginning to compete on state and federal marketplaces and health care reform is placing pressure on providers to cut costs while increasing quality. Read More »

Blue Cross' $65 Billion Move Away From Fee-For-Service Medicine

Bruce Japsen | Forbes.com | July 9, 2014

In the latest blow to fee-for-service medicine, the nation’s Blue Cross and Blue Shield plans say they are spending more than $65 billion annually — about 20 percent of the medical claim dollars they pay — on “value-based” care that rewards better outcomes and keeps patients healthy...

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CGI To Build Vermont's HIX

Anthony Brino | Government Health IT | December 20, 2012

Vermont has contracted with global IT firm CGI to build the infrastructure for Vermont Health Connect, the state’s health insurance exchange. Read More »

EMR Technical Solutions Announces Hosting Initiative For Health Insurance Exchange

Press Release | EMR Technical Solutions | August 14, 2012

Our comprehensive solutions integrate the multiple aspects of health insurance delivery—including a consumer portal, eligibility determinations, financial services, plan enrollment, call center and customer support, enhanced privacy, and program administration. EMR Technical Solutions can help your state deliver a comprehensive, interoperable HIX system that connects new and existing government and private sector systems within a consistent architecture. Read More »

Even Supporters Need To Realize That Obamacare Needs A Fundamental Fix

Robert Laszewski | KevinMD.com | March 14, 2014

The administration has confirmed that the individual policies that were supposed to be cancelled because of Obamacare can now remain in force another two years.  For months I have been saying millions of individual health insurance policies will be cancelled by year-end — most deferred until December because of the carriers’ early renewal programs and because of President Obama’s request the policies be extended in the states that have allowed it.

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Federal health market surpasses 1 million signups

Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar | Federal News Radio | December 29, 2013

A December surge propelled health care sign-ups through the government's rehabilitated website past the 1 million mark, the Obama administration said Sunday Read More »

Good Enough For Government Work? The Contractors Building Obamacare

Bill Allison | Sunlight Foundation Reporting Group | October 9, 2013

[...As] head-scratching continues about how a famously web-savvy administration could have flubbed its Internet homework so badly, an examination by the Sunlight Foundation shows the administration turned the task of building its futuristic new health care technology planning and programming over to legacy contractors with deep political pockets. Read More »

GOP-Led Utah Takes 'Atypical' Path To State-Run HIX

Staff Writer | Government Health IT | January 7, 2013

The Obama administration’s announcement that it has given Utah a conditional okay to run its own state health insurance marketplace came as a surprise to many exchange watchers. Read More »

Group Advocates For Single-Payer System Over HIX

Tammy Worth | Government Health IT | March 17, 2014

Even as the Affordable Care Act is in its nascent stages, some states are already looking toward 2017 when they can request waivers to opt out of the healthcare exchanges. And a small, but persistent, movement has popped up toward a single payer system as an alternative to participating in the exchanges.

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Health Insurance Exchanges (HIX) successfully open despite glitches

Tom Sullivan | Government Health IT | October 1, 2013

...The federal hub known as Healthcare.gov had 1 million visitors before 7 a.m, President Barack Obama said on Tuesday, explaining that was five times more visitors than have ever surfed to Medicare.gov all at once. Read More »

Health Insurance Shouldn’t Be Tied To Employment

Simon Basseyn | KevinMD.com | May 24, 2014

If my car insurance isn’t linked to my employer, should my health insurance? A recent projection by S&P Capital IQ, a research firm in the financial industry, estimated that 90% of Americans will receive health insurance from government exchanges by 2020...

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Health IT Implementation And The Importance Of Data Liquidity

Mike Behrmann | Segue Technologies | June 19, 2013

We’ve all heard the latest buzz words: big data, data visualization, data integrity. The prevalence of these terms in Health IT circles are evidence that Healthcare organizations are faced with immense amounts of data, and their “buzz” status is more than enough warning that facing data challenges is an imminent prospect. [...] Read More »